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<div><h1 class="article-title">What are the Home Message Center Notifications?</h1></div>
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    <p>The Message Center in Home displays the Messages and Forum posts for all of the sites in which you are enrolled. New messages are indicated by a number and envelope icon. If there are no new messages or posts, the word "none" will be displayed.</p>
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<li>Clicking on the title of the site will take you to the homepage for that site.</li>
<li>Clicking on the New Messages indicator will take you directly to the Message Inbox for that site.</li>
<li>Clicking on the New in Forums indicator will take you directly to the Forums for that site. </li>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">View the Message Center.</h2>
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    <p>You may click on the <strong>Options</strong> button to customize the list of sites displayed in the Message Center area.</p>
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    <p>Click the<strong> Don't Show</strong> box to place a check mark next to any sites that you prefer not to see in the Message Center list and then click <strong>Update</strong>. </p>
<p><em>Note: If you have already hidden sites in Preferences, they will not show up in this list.</em></p>
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